Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Soyuz Rocket Enroute to Space Station

While there will be a lot of "space travel" going on Saturday at Northeast Alabama BEST's game day, it would be easy for us to forget that some real space travel occurred today as the Soyuz TMA-06M blasted off from Site 31 in Kazakhstan. The crew includes two Russian cosmonauts and a U.S. astronaut. Among the payload, 32 medaka fish bound for a zero-gravity research aquarium.

Check out the CBS article here.